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Spring Bed.

Patented June 29,1880.

N. PEFERS, PHOTO L :HOGRAPH -UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR S. FOSTER, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

SPRING-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,243, dated June 29, 1880.

Application filed September 17, 1879.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR S. FOSTER, of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in spring bed-bottoms; and it consists in the combination, with spiral springs and slats supported thereon, of a wire secured to the several slats at consecutive points alternately on opposite sides of a straight line passing at rightangles across said slats.

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the bedbottom. Fig. 2 shows a bottom view of a portion of the bed-bottom, with the zigzag wire and brace.

In Fig. 1 A A is the zigzag wire extending across the horizontal slats B B, and O O the wire brace connected to the sill E.

In Fig. 2 A A is the zigzag wire fastened with staples to the slats B B, with the wire brace O O extendingfrom the slats B B to the sill E.

The bed-bottom is made of the ordinary spiral springs and wooden bars, and the zigzag wire and brace are made of spring-wire.

The wire is fastened to each successive slat by staples driven at or close to one side of the angle formed, and clinched on the opposite side. At the outside slat the wire is left sufficiently long to form a return-bend at the point where it is stapled, and the end is fastened at a suitable distance from the returnbend to the sill or cross-slat, thereby forming a brace to prevent lateral motion of the bed.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

In a spring bed-bottom, the combination with spiral springs and slats supported thereon, of wire A, secured to the several slats at -consecutive points alternately on opposite sides of a straight line passing at right angles across said slats, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of September, 1879.

OSCAR S. FOSTER.

Witnesses ORVILLE P. ALLEN, CHARLES G. IRISH. 

